Current Issue Photo caption For this scene on health and humanities, our cover illustration by Wenjia Tang shows an idealized community, its parts in balance with each other and with nature. Summer 2020 Volume 41, Issue 3 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Classics What Sets Italian Americans Off From Other Immigrants? Family and work for starters, according to a new TV documentary. Vincent J. Cannato A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known. The pirate next door. Mark G. Hanna When Bram Met Walt Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet. Meredith Hindley How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal? It’s more than a word. It’s an attitude and a lifestyle. David Skinner Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated Steven Nadler The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein Was the den mother of modernism a fascist? Barbara Will
What Sets Italian Americans Off From Other Immigrants? Family and work for starters, according to a new TV documentary. Vincent J. Cannato
A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known. The pirate next door. Mark G. Hanna
When Bram Met Walt Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet. Meredith Hindley
How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal? It’s more than a word. It’s an attitude and a lifestyle. David Skinner